Anthropic's Model Context Protocol crossed 97 million SDK installs by 25 March 2026, the fastest-adopted AI infrastructure standard in history. Anthropic donated MCP to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, co-founded with Block and OpenAI.
- Vendor published
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- Cadence
- 90 days
- Next review
- 2026-07-18
Why this was logged
MCP's trajectory from Nov 2024 open-source release to 97M installs + Linux Foundation donation in 17 months is the fastest enterprise protocol-standardisation story on record. Reshapes agent-platform build-vs-buy calculus.
Review history
No reviews yet. First review scheduled for 2026-07-18.
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Three concurrent claims to verify: the install-count, the donation action, and the “fastest in history” framing. First two are facts; third is an editorial claim that survives only against a specific historical-comparison base. Review at 90 days against successor-protocol announcements.